Apex April TransAtlantic Weather

[Jim_Iain]

4/28. Middle of Atlantic

 

Will give details after Captains briefing. 
 

If A picture is with a million words how much is a movie worth

 

 

 

 

[Gaynors]

Wow...we didn't have anything like that on the Connie on the southern route.  Weather and seas have been wonderful the last few days.  Here's the current info as we are off Africa heading towards Cadiz.

[hcat]

3 hours ago, Jim_Iain said:

4/28. Middle of Atlantic

 

Will give details after Captains briefing. 
 

If A picture is with a million words how much is a movie worth

 

 

 

IMG_2865.mov 35.12 MB · 6 downloads  

 

oh my..scary beautiful.. good day to stay indoors!

[LadyBerard]

We've done one transatlantic, back when NCL Epic was new.  We sailed towards the end of June from London to NY and arrived in NY on July 3rd or 4th.  We had wonderful sunny, warm weather for a couple days prior to the cruise in London, but the day after departure, weather was windy and rainy and very cool, damn near all the way to NY.  One and done for us.  We'll never do another transatlantic cruise.  Not for us.

[Jim_Iain]

3 hours ago, Gaynors said:

Wow...we didn't have anything like that on the Connie on the southern route.  Weather and seas have been wonderful the last few days.  Here's the current info as we are off Africa heading towards Cadiz.

At lunch I was talking to Yuksel the MD of Luminae and telling him of all our Southern Crossings we felt like we were on a pond.   True to form the Northern Crossing can be anywhere from mild to Wild and this is a wild one.

[Jim_Iain]

I'll post some visual later but here's the 10:00 AM briefing from the Captain -

 

Temperature 10 C   59F

Winds 35 Knots

High Seas lat night at 26 feet but chose the best of to route options.  Plan A was to go further south and Plan B go North East and shoot for a gap in the storm.   He said he made the right choice.

 

For the next 24-36 hours -  will be better today 13 Knots 10 C waves 15 feet from port which is causing a roll Port to Starboard.

[Jim_Iain]

Current waves and position. 

[Ex-Airbalancer]

They just moved Chic Night tonight from tomorrow night on the Reflection TA 

as the captain said it will be a bit rougher tomorrow night 

[Gaynors]

Hoping better conditions for you ahead!

A beautiful evening..7 pm.. on the Connie 

[Jim_Iain]

I learned something new.  I was trying to enter ships location into windy and it would show me in Turkey.   
 

After a suggestion on my live I looked at coordinates on cruise mapper and found the second number had to have a negative in front which I guess W means. 
 

 

makes it so much more usable for exact location 
 

Edited April 28, 2023 by Jim_Iain

[Arizona Wildcat]

10 hours ago, Jim_Iain said:

4/28. Middle of Atlantic

 

Will give details after Captains briefing. 
 

If A picture is with a million words how much is a movie worth

 

 

 

IMG_2865.mov 35.12 MB · 15 downloads  

 

No rain and calmer seas aft.  Lol

[Jim_Iain]

4/28/2023.  See exact coordinates but I would say mid Atlantic

 

Just had internet drop for 5 minutes 

 

 

when it came up ran speed test.  Noticed we are now connecting to London instead of Miami or Atlanta. 

 

[Ex-Airbalancer]

Could be a little crazy at 5am Saturday morning on the Reflection 

[Jim_Iain]

Captain Nikolaos has done an incredible job to minimize the discomfort of this big storm.   We should see a nice day and if he works it right will shot the gap on the backside of the front as it spins counter clockwise.    Do you see that clear gap --  he's trying to anticipate what the backside will do. 

 

 

[Ex-Airbalancer]

Very choppy this morning but not bad , should be getting nicer soon 

 

[Jim_Iain]

Will see if this works.  Audio recording of captains weather briefing.  
 

 

 

[Gia2cats]

39 minutes ago, Jim_Iain said:

Will see if this works.  Audio recording of captains weather briefing.  
 

 

 

Worked well, Jim. Very interesting information.

[ProfMHC]

Thanks so much for posting this — we are never in a spot to hear his remarks 😊

[Jim_Iain]

3 hours ago, ProfMHC said:

Thanks so much for posting this — we are never in a spot to hear his remarks 😊

 

I was thinking this morning it would help.    I have the worst time finding that app -- I search for Recorder, Voice Memo (the name) it doesnt find it.   I have to look for it under utilities.   Maybe I should just move to page one  --- ok I have 20 pages of apps....

 

I was sitting in Retreat sipping coffee right under a speaker.  

[Jim_Iain]

 

Current location -   46.18007 N, -34.04815

18.5 Kn to get us through the smooth storm center and will be slowing down later for a smoother ride through the backside of the storm.   They are forecasting high seas and wind again around 10 PM tonight.

Temps were a chilly 50-52 today.  

Waves

 

Winds Now

 

Projected Winds tonight at 10PM

 

 

Waves by 5 AM --   Here we go again  as the storms spins Counter Clockwise and hits us with 10-18 Foot Wave

 

[phoenix_dream]

Thank you for all the weather detail.  I was turning green even reading your review.  I've always wondered how I would handle a TA as I am prone to seasickness in rough seas, usually manageable with meds and wristbands unless it gets really bad.  I've managed some crossings to the ABC's in the Caribbean that were pretty nasty, but those only lasted one day.  Same for a Gulf of Mexico sailing many years ago - we got close to 30', pitching and rolling that time - ugh!!  But again, only one day.  I don't think I will ever want to chance six days at sea with potential for waves as high as they got on your cruise.  I'll stick with cruising for sure (over 80 so far, mostly on Celebrity), but no TA's in my future!

[Ex-Airbalancer]

Got a message from a friend on the Valiant Lady which is about 150 miles a head of us 

they could hit by a water spout today , everyone was ok 

 

[Jim_Iain]

4/30/2023

Morning briefing from Captain - Details to follow

 

 
 

 

 

 

[Jim_Iain]

9 hours ago, Ex-Airbalancer said:

Got a message from a friend on the Valiant Lady which is about 150 miles a head of us 

they could hit by a water spout today , everyone was ok 

 

Amazing. 

[Jim_Iain]

Weather Check Time   4:35 Zulu  -   We are finally on London Timezone and no more time changes for awhile.

 

First up -

Winds have died down a little but but blowing at 27 Knots and gusting to 35  Temps warmer at 58

 

 

Seas choppy but 10-15 feet and starting to calm down